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1 | African medicine in the new world | 3 |
Cotton Mather on smallpox inoculation (1716) | 5 | |
An account of the method and success of inoculating the small-pox in Boston (1722) | 6 | |
2 | New world skills | 7 |
Runaway slave advertisements | 9 | |
A profile of runaway slaves in Virginia and South Carolina from 1730 through 1787 | 12 | |
Advertisement for a fugitive slave (1769) | 14 | |
Letter from Benjamin Banneker to the secretary of state, with his answer (1792) | 15 | |
3 | The persistence of craft | 23 |
Advertisements for runaway slaves in Virginia, 1801-1820 | 25 | |
Life and times of Frederick Douglass (1882) | 29 | |
The fugitive blacksmith; or, events in the history of James W. C. Pennington | 37 | |
Uncle Tom's cabin (1852) | 40 | |
A journey in the seaboard slave states (1856) and a journey in the back country (1861) | 44 | |
His promised land : the autobiography of John P. Parker, former slave and conductor on the Underground Railroad | 49 | |
Layout of Parker's Phoenix Foundry (1884) | 54 | |
U.S. patent to John Percial Parker for a soil-pulverizer (1890) | 55 | |
Tending a cotton gin (1853) | 58 | |
4 | The new industrial age | 59 |
Notes on North America, agricultural, economical, and social (1851) | 61 | |
Scenes from Oak Lawn, Louisiana plantation (1864) | 64 | |
Slave labor as reported in Nile's weekly register (1849) and DeBow's Southern and Western review (1851) | 66 | |
The history of the first locomotives in America (1874) | 71 | |
Advertisement in The liberator seeking colored inventors (1834) | 74 | |
U.S. patent to Norbert Rillieux for an "improvement in sugar-works" (1843) | 75 | |
U.S. patent to Norbert Rillieux for an "improvement in sugar-making" (1846) | 87 | |
The Confederate Patent Act (1861) | 89 | |
5 | Finding a place in the industrial age | 93 |
Mechanism and art (1873) | 95 | |
Using jokes to invent the expert | 97 | |
John Henry, the steel driving man (1929) | 98 | |
The Eclipse clothes wringer (c. 1880s) | 100 | |
Woman with bicycle (c. 1890s) | 101 | |
The taint of the bicycle (1902) | 102 | |
6 | Training for the industrial age | 109 |
Comments on the advisibility of instructing engineering students in the history of the engineering profession (1903) | 111 | |
Industrial education; will it solve the Negro problem, II (1904) | 113 | |
The training of Negroes for social power (1904) | 120 | |
Industrial education - will it solve the Negro problem (1904) | 127 | |
Working with the hands (1904) | 132 | |
How electricity is taught at Tuskegee (1904) | 136 | |
Racial progress as reported in The colored American magazine (1902) | 142 | |
The American Negro artisan (1904) | 144 | |
Results of some hard experiences : a plain talk to young men (1902) | 153 | |
Manufacturing household articles (1904) | 157 | |
The career of mechanic John G. Howard (1902) | 161 | |
7 | Inventors | 163 |
The colored inventor : a record of fifty years (1913) | 165 | |
Clara Frye, a woman inventor (1907) | 172 | |
U.S. patent to Garret A. Morgan for a "breathing device" (1914) | 174 | |
8 | The rural South | 181 |
You may plow here : the narrative of Sara Brooks | 183 | |
Cotton picking machines and southern agriculture | 189 | |
We (1927) | 191 | |
9 | Industrial employment | 193 |
Tuskegee ideals in industrial education (1926) | 195 | |
Women at work : a century of industrial change (1934) | 199 | |
The typewriter (1926) | 202 | |
10 | The automobile | 209 |
Automobiles and the Jim Crow regulations (1924) | 211 | |
Through the windshield (1933) | 212 | |
Running the red light (Tilman C. Cothran) | 216 | |
U.S. patent to G. A. Morgan for a "traffic signal" (1923) | 217 | |
11 | Learning to fly | 223 |
Soaring above setbacks : the autobiography of Janet Harmon Bragg, African American aviator | 225 | |
Coffey School of Aeronautics (1944) and 99th pursuit squadron, air unit (1942) | 226 | |
Lt. Clarence "Lucky" Lester | 229 | |
12 | War work | 231 |
Negro workers and the national defense program (1942) | 233 | |
A black woman at work in a wartime airplane assembly plant | 245 | |
Graduate Technicians and National Technical Association (1944) | 246 | |
Defense and wartime employment (1946-1947) | 248 | |
Bay area council against discrimination, San Francisco (1942) | 252 | |
13 | After the war | 255 |
Elm City, a Negro community in action (1945) | 257 | |
Mechanization in agriculture (1941-1946) | 260 | |
The Negro in the aerospace industry (1968) | 265 | |
14 | Setting a political agenda | 279 |
Revolution in a technological society (1971) | 281 | |
15 | Ties to Africa | 289 |
Mickey Leland and the USAID Bureau for Africa | 291 | |
Solar cooking demonstration in Akwasiho Village, Ghana | 295 | |
16 | Engineering careers | 301 |
Women and minorities in science and engineering | 303 | |
History of the National Society of Black Engineers (1997) | 309 | |
Black women engineers and technologists | 313 | |
Careers in science and technology (1993) | 330 | |
17 | Accessing the information age | 339 |
Bridging the racial divide on the Internet (1998) | 341 | |
Cyberghetto : blacks are falling through the Net (1998) | 348 | |
Troubletown (1998) | 352 | |
The black technological entrepreneur (1999) | 353 | |
18 | Technological troubles | 357 |
A place at the table : a Sierra roundtable on race, justice, and the environment, and the letter that shook a movement (1993) | 359 | |
Neighbors rally to fight proposed waste-burner (1992) | 371 | |
United States to weigh blacks' complaints about pollution (1993) | 374 | |
Presidential Executive Order 12898 - environmental justice | 377 | |
Study attacks "environmental justice" (1994) | 380 | |
New York Seminarian promotes environmental justice in Africa (1996) | 382 |
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